Sophomore heptathlete Apasha Blocker has distinguished herself as the Gophers track and field team's wonder woman through repeated success in her seven grueling events. The 200-meter race, 800, 100 hurdles,...

A raccoon caused some inconvenience for students Thursday morning when it short-circuited a transformer that serves a large area of southeast Minneapolis, triggering a blackout. At about 4 a.m., almost...

For 25 years now, the Chicano Studies department has survived several different challenges, ranging from possible shutdown to poor faculty retention to low funding. However, through it all, Chicano Studies...

Gophers freshman high jumper Staffan Strand has been jumping since he was 8 years old, but recently his teammates have been teaching him a new kind of jump -- dunking a basketball. Although Strand is...

Gophers senior Troy Stein was pulling on his batting gloves Wednesday afternoon in front of the first base dugout at Siebert Field. He was preparing for batting practice when Gophers assistant coach Rob...

The women's golf team feels it has nothing to lose at the Big Ten championships, which run today through Sunday in East Lansing, Mich. The team will be playing under considerably less pressure this weekend...

Last week, the U.S. Supreme Court agreed with a landmark appeals court ruling that a prestigious university discriminated against female athletes. The court let stand a lower court ruling in Cohen v. Brown...

For one of the few times in his 18-year career, Gophers men's golf coach John Means gambled on a recruit last spring. He signed freshman golfer Martin Le Mesurier to a national letter of intent without...

LONDON (AP) -- The Labor Party stormed to a landslide election victory Friday, ending a generation of Conservative rule and making 43-year-old Tony Blair the youngest prime minister in 185 years. By early...

Elmo carried a plate of carrots and celery and into Elma's room. "What's this?" she asked. "I thought we could celebrate," Elmo said. "May is National Mastication Month. I thought these would be good foods...